1st Grade Orff Orchestra

1st graders are starting to learn how to play in the Orff orchestra - xylophones, metalophones, glockenspeils, and bass bars!  Students are first learning how to hold mallets and the four different mallet techniques that we will be using this year - hands together, alternating hands, glissando, and tremolo.  

To practice these techniques, students took turns being the "body conductor."  The conductor told students what technique to use based on their body movements.

Students had to watch very closely so that the mallets only hit the bars when the conductor's body moved!